Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-06-16

eacn gay, anc they MAKE Things happen wnen
they do get at it. Every thing is comparatively
quiet at night"
Ten thousand thanks to the ladies of Mobile
for sending US that provision, they sent US last
night. think was the hungriest man on the
map" You ought TO have seen with what
eagerness devoured those eggs, meat and cake.
While eating my heart ran out in thankfulness
to the fair daughters of the fair city. was
proud that was soldier battling for the rights
ofsuch ladies as those"
shall have to close The shells are coming
too fast and my mind is too much conferred on
Number One" and my nerves too unsteady TO
write. You know that bombshells are very de-
moralizing II they are not so dangerous"
More anon, CHUM.
From the same papers editorial column
the following is taken:
s'The Enemy"
''From about FIVE o'clock till after dark last
evening the firing on the eastern shore was the
heaviest yet heard and it still continues,
though somewhat slackened at our usual time
OF closing, though we are yet without any infor-
nation OF the progress OF affairs"
Later. After eleven o'clock a dispatch was re-
ceived, stating that the enemy had opened on
Spanish Fort with thirty guns but after great
deal OF noise had made no impression. Our
garrison over there stands like stone WALL
The Yankees ammunition is bad, OF the shod-
dy-contract sort, so that very few OF the shells
explode. Our artillerists use only Confederate
powder 10 send back their own proiectiles.
While we write at ten O'Clock p. m, an occa-
sional gun is heard"
From the same column the following is
also excepted:
"I3rave Boys"
The following letter received by Major Gen.
eral Maury from a student at Spring Hill Col
lege cannot be read with indifference by friend
or foe of the cause of Confederate independence
the cradle to recruit our armies"
SPRINGHILL COLLEGE, March q, 1865
Maj. Gen. D. H. Mdury.
DEAR SIR:--At the request of great many of
my fellow students write to you on a very
serious subject-that is about joining the army
for the defense of Mobile.
The President will not let us go without we
consider ourselves expelled; so we wish you to
send out one of your aids and muster us in the
service.
There will be about forty that will go. We
are all of age, strong and healthy and can fight
as good as any man. Now, General, we
want your assistance; If we do not receive it
soon we will be compelled to go and be ex-
PEELED. So we do not think you could help from
assisting u.s.
Please help US Immediately.
A STUDENT OF SPRINGHIIL COLLEGE.
At the time the Thirteenth army ceps
was advancing up the eastern shore Of
Mobile Bay-joined by the Sixteenth corps
at the mouth of Fish river-to the invest
ment and siege of Spanish Fort, cooper
Grating column, led by General Francis
Steele, moved from Pensacola, Fla,
and attacked Fort Blakely, twelve miles
northeast of Mobile on the Tensaw river.
AS soon as Spanish Fort fell into our
hands, the troops engaged in the in
vestment of this place were ordered to
Blakely, about ten miles northeast and to
the right.
The march was begun near noon of April
9. About half the distance had been ac-
complished when a terrific cannonade and
musketry fire was heard at the front.
Under the inspiration of this sound
the column moved faster, but by and
by the firing ceased and word came back
that Blakely had been carried by assault.
This was a sultry Sabbath afternoon and
the very day that Lee surrendered at APP
pomatox, April 9, 1866, though the latter
event was not known to the Union forces
about Mobile till some days later.
Toward night the command went into
camp near Blakely, in grove of pine trees.
Early next morning the scene of the pre-
vious days battle was visited. AT both
Spanish Fort and Blakely the Confeder-
ates had planted torpedoes about the APP
proaches to their works. These working
parties were removing as their location
was pointed out by Confederate prisoners.
1t was said that several of our men the
day previous had trodden upon these ter
rible instruments of death and were blown
to atoms. In most instances they were
percussion shells placed just beneath the